This version adds support for Microsoft Office 2003, including Outlook 2003 and Windows Server 2003; Novell GroupWise 6.5; and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). More info: [url=http://www.pgp.com]http://www.pgp.com[/url]
Microsoft has a new security project called ‘Springboard’
The first Springboard work is going into the security hardening of Windows XP in Service Pack 2, due out next year, and Windows Server 2003 in Service Pack 1, due out sometime later.
Stan Sorensen, director of product marketing for SQL Server, confirms that SQL Server 2000 will go through the process.
The date for a Springboard-related deliverable for SQL hasn’t yet been determined.
Forrester TechStrategy report: DCML: A Good Step Toward Organic IT Standards
This week, dcml.org members outlined plans for an XML-based language to describe data center elements, catalog best practices, and document deployment recipes. To convince customers and vendors to implement DCML — and demonstrate immediate value — members should:
– Deliver working examples;
– Persuade users to demand standards for data center automation
– Recruit two major systems vendors
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Maltese Government Website hacked
One of the government websites was hacked after one of the accounts on the server on which the website is was compromised, Information Technology Minister Austin Gatt said yesterday. Indications were that the attack was done by a person using a Moroccan internet Service Provider. The only consequence of this…
Microsoft Debuts First Windows XP Security Pack
Update Rollup 1, which has been in beta testing for the past month, is being positioned by Microsoft as a more convenient way for users to deploy patches they might have missed when the original vulnerabilities — and associated security bulletins — were posted on the company’s Web site.
When discussion of the Rollup first started, analysts saw it as an attempt by Microsoft to provide an interim pack of security updates prior to the release of a second Service Pack for Windows XP, which at that point wasn’t expected until the middle of 2004.
As recently as last week, however, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a wide-ranging talk about Microsoft’s security plans, repeated that Service Pack 2 (SP2) would not release until the half-way point of next year.
No matter what the time frame for SP2, the recently-released rollup meets only half of the criteria that analyst Michael Cherry, of Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that tracks Microsoft’s moves in the marketplace, thinks is necessary for success.
Such a CD would be a better way to get the 9MB rollup out to customers, such as consumers and small business users, who access the Internet through slow dial-up connections.
One way that the rollup may be used, he added, would be by OEMs, which could conceivably add it to their Windows XP distributions they pre-load on new PCs.
In his speech last week at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Ballmer announced that the Redmond, Wash.-based developer would switch to a monthly schedule for non-critical security updates, replacing the sporadic Wednesday bulletins and patches.
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Oracle Ships Security Software
Oracle Identity Management enables system administrators to establish single sign-on for employees, partners or customers who need access to multiple business applications.
The software includes LDAP directory services to store and manage user identities and access control privileges, and integration services for connecting to an existing security and directory infrastructure, officials with the Redwood City, Calif., company said.
The software also has user provisioning services for Oracle and non-Oracle applications, and public key infrastructure services, including a certificate authority to issue digital certificates for users.
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